Lola Butcher

As healthcare providers restructure and redesign to become accountable for quality and costs, they are keeping patients’ needs and expectations front and center.

As the need for management skills for physicians becomes ever more evident, the number of MD/MBA programs has doubled in the past decade. About 65 dual-degree programs are offered in the United States, with more on the way.

“When I found out that the payment structure was so terrible that nobody could be convinced to do house calls, I made it my goal to change the equation so that people would return to doing this as a normal part of medical practice,” Peter…

The program will allow Medicare to contract with accountable care organizations (ACOs), which will give neurologists and other physicians a financial incentive to practice high-quality, low-cost medicine.

When you throw something out to the world, and believe in it, someone will listen.

Six of the nation’s leading health systems are working with the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice to develop, test and disseminate knowledge about delivery and payment reforms designed to bring value-based care to America.